Kansas City Divorce & Family Law Blog by Stange Law Firm, PC

On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in Child Custody on Thursday, October 16, 2014. As we have noted for readers in select prior posts, and as family law commentators widely note quite often in divorce-related tracts and articles, the marital dissolution process is flatly unique in every case. There is simply no doubt about that. No two families are the same. Nor are the circumstances that initially brought a couple together or later worked collectively to separate married partners and bring them to the so-called divorce table. Notwithstanding, though, that divorce particulars will necessarily vary in every case,

On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in Child Custody on Tuesday, September 9, 2014. In a recent opinion piece written for The New York Times, psychology professor and author Robert E. Emery notes what he thinks is a hard-line and sometimes irrational dichotomy between how the American legal system treats married parents versus divorced parents, respectively, in matters relating to children. Emery points to time-honored judicial restraint in most instances when it comes to how-to-raise-the-kids disputes that arise between married spouses. He cites a court ruling — concededly, now dusty and time-worn — from one state noting that,

On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in Child Custody on Monday, August 11, 2014. There is an overriding and oft-used mantra that permeates many family law concerns in Illinois and Missouri, as well as throughout the rest of the country, and it is this: “the best interests of the child.” That standard is what centrally guides judges in their divorce-related and other family concerns where children are involved. The guideline is at once understandable and appreciated, given the singular innocence and vulnerabilities of children in any process that is bringing about material change in their lives. Divorce is